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Tag: Documentary

Q&A: Jubilee’s Jason Y. Lee On ‘Save My Seoul’ & New Directions

Commentary, Movies by Lily Rugo

After nearly seven years, over 40 videos, three years of running a fellowship program for young filmmakers, and a feature-length documentary, Jubilee Project founder Jason Y. Lee is beginning […]

You’ll Call Mom After Watching This Heartfelt Mother-Daughter Documentary

Commentary, Movies by Mary Grace Costa

Mother’s Day may have passed months ago, but filmmaker Ellie Wen’s short documentary will make you reach for your cell phone and call your mom to tell her you […]

Film Review: Asian American Rappers Take Center Stage In ‘Bad Rap’

Music by Melissa Kim

“Do you think you are talented?” The query, directed at rapper Dumbfoundead, hangs in the air, frozen like a waiting high-five. Four rappers are the subject of director Salima Koroma’s […]

Exclusive clip: How South Korea’s top actress was taken by Kim Jong-il

by Tae Hong

Check out this exclusive clip from Magnolia Pictures’ “The Lovers & The Despot,” a documentary about the 1970s North Korean kidnapping of South Korea’s top film couple by Ross […]

‘The Lovers & the Despot’: The most bizarre kidnapping story ever

Movies by Tae Hong

When filmmakers Robert Cannan and Ross Adam first came across the kidnapping of director Shin Sang-ok and his two-time wife Choi Eun-hee, the “Brangelina of ‘70s South Korea” who […]

Off the Menu: An exploration of Asian cuisine’s impact on the US

Movies by Ron Rocky

A Korean American filmmaker recently released a documentary highlighting the impact and evolution of Asian cuisine in the United States. Grace Lee, who grew up in Columbia, Missouri, released […]

The kidnapping of South Korean film royalty by North Korea

Movies by Tae Hong

In 1978, a debonair South Korean filmmaker and his former wife, one of the country’s biggest movie stars, were kidnapped by Kim Jong-il’s North Korean agents and forced to create films […]

Graffiti art brings Native Hawaii to light in documentary ‘Mele Murals’

Art, Movies by Tae Hong

Can street art connect a generation of youth to their cultural roots and identity? For a group of Native Hawaiian kids and the two graffiti artists who helped, filmed […]

SBS Documentary Reveals Inconsistencies in the Lee Jung-hee Case

TV by James S. Kim

by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com A new documentary segment shedding light on the controversy surrounding Lee Jung-hee and her two unnamed American-born sons is raising serious questions […]

Journalist Jose Vargas Addresses Racism in MTV’s Controversial Documentary ‘White People’

TV by Arianna Caramat

  Wednesday evening, MTV aired White People, a highly-anticipated documentary that follows Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and activist born in the Philippines, as he explores what […]

The 38th Asian American Int’l Film Festival Kicks Off in NYC

Movies by James S. Kim

by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com The 38th Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) is kicking off this weekend in New York City. Launched in 1975, AAIFF is […]

‘Twinsters’ to Hit Theaters Nationwide July 17

Commentary, Movies by Reera Yoo

by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com Twinsters, a documentary about twin sisters reunited through social media after 25 years of separation, is slated for a July theatrical release, Variety reports. In […]

Win Tickets to See Korean Films at L.A. Film Fest

Movies by Audrey Magazine

  The annual Los Angeles Film Festival is kicking off in just a couple of days, and the festival has partnered with KoreAm Journal and Audrey Magazine to give our readers a […]

Korean American Filmmaker Grace Lee’s Documentary Wins Peabody Award

Movies by Reera Yoo

by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com Korean American filmmaker Grace Lee’s documentary, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, has been named as one of the winners of the 74th annual Peabody Awards. […]

LAAPFF Features Korean and Korean American Films

Movies by Reera Yoo

by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com The 31st Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) will be showcasing a wide variety of indie films, documentaries and short films created […]

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